Roach Family Craziness: Halloween Time Disneyland Style

Friday, October 30, 2009

Halloween Time Disneyland Style

Last weekend (I admit to being a little lazy/busy and not updating everyone earlier) we went to Disneyland. Neal and I have been looking forward to taking the kiddos to Disneyland to see it all decorated for Halloween. The decorations are unbelievable!! We are excited to go back over Christmas and see it all decorated, I can only imagine how excellent it will look then! The day started out rough, but by the end we had a good time and were glad that we went, I think that it was a little too hot for the end of October, but I guess that comes with living in CA.

Just one of the many themed light posts

About 5 minutes after we got to Disneyland and no one wanted to take a picture. I think that Austin spent the next 2 hours pouting in his stroller, he would only get out to ride the rides (and then only if you carried him and he complained the entire time)!

We decided that as long as they were cranky and uncooperative they were going to go on the Haunted Mansion, it was all decorated for the season from the movie "Nightmare Before Christmas" The kids said they liked it, but when asked they also said that they would not go on the ride again.

Neal and Paige got to meet Woody, Austin was still pouting and refused to get out of his stroller

I will start by saying that no one looks good in this photo, but we were waiting to get our turn on the Matterhorn...even Austin rode it and we all LOVED it. He was grinning from ear to ear, if you ask him about it he gets all excited and starts to tell you about how he "saw 2 monsters and wasn't even scared"! It is totally cute!

As we were leaving Disneyland we took one last ride on the carousel, that always brings out the smiles!

I was able to bribe the kiddos on the way out of the park, they had to stand for a nice photo or they wouldn't get popcorn for the ride home. I don't know that I would call this nice (they could have at least stood next to each other) but they did both stand there!

We took a quick trip to California Adventure to see what their Candy Corn Acres was all about. They decorated Disneyland in pumpkins and California Adventure in candy corn. Paige and Austin got to meet Minnie and Dale in front of the HUGE candy corn.